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Biochemical and structural characterization of cross-linked enzyme aggregates (CLEAs) of organic solvent tolerant protease


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Mohd Razib, Muhammad Syafiq and Raja Abdul Rahman, Raja Noor Zaliha and Mohd Shariff, Fairolniza and Mohamad Ali, Mohd Shukuri (2020) Biochemical and structural characterization of cross-linked enzyme aggregates (CLEAs) of organic solvent tolerant protease. Catalysts, 10 (1). art. no. 55. pp. 1-16. ISSN 2073-4344

Abstract

Cross-linked enzyme aggregates (CLEAs) is an immobilization technique that can be used to customize enzymes under an optimized condition. Structural analysis on any enzyme treated with a CLEA remains elusive and has been less explored. In the present work, a method for preparing an organic solvent tolerant protease using a CLEA is disclosed and optimized for better biochemical properties, followed by an analysis of the structure of this CLEA-treated protease. The said organic solvent tolerant protease is a metalloprotease known as elastase strain K in which activity of the metalloprotease is measured by a biochemical interaction with azocasein. Results showed that when a glutaraldehyde of 0.02% (v/v) was used under a 2 h treatment, the amount of recovered activity in CLEA-elastase was highest. The recovered activity of CLEA-elastase and CLEA-elastase-SB (which was a CLEA co-aggregated with starch and bovine serum albumin (BSA)) were at an approximate 60% and 80%, respectively. The CLEA immobilization of elastase strain K allowed the stability of the enzyme to be enhanced at high temperature and at a broader pH. Both CLEA-elastase and CLEA-elastase-SB end-products were able to maintain up to 67% enzyme activity at 60 °C and exhibiting an enhanced stability within pH 5–9 with up to 90% recovering activity. By implementing a CLEA on the organic solvent tolerant protease, the characteristics of the organic solvent tolerant were preserved and enhanced with the presence of 25% (v/v) acetonitrile, ethanol, and benzene at 165%, 173%, and 153% relative activity. Structural analysis through SEM and dynamic light scattering (DLS) showed that CLEA-elastase had a random aggregate morphology with an average diameter of 1497 nm.


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Item Type: Article
Divisions: Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences
DOI Number: https://doi.org/10.3390/catal10010055
Publisher: MDPI
Keywords: CLEA; Solvent-tolerant protease; Glutaraldehyde; Immobilization
Depositing User: Nabilah Mustapa
Date Deposited: 03 May 2020 23:05
Last Modified: 03 May 2020 23:05
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URI: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/38188
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